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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen

Monday, January 27, 2014

Those Boots

Nancy Sinatra wore them!

I saw them on the Sony and Cher Show
Coveted them
like any 9 year-old girl covets
horses and 10 year-old boys
My mother said no
Too expensive
Besides, I'd soon outgrow them anyway
But on a birthday shopping trip
to the city with Nana
(We rode the bus; Nana never learned to drive)
I saw them in the Thom McCann window
Nana let me try them on
The salesman zipped and laced them up
I wore them home
feeling like a star
White go-go boots.

Mod Barbies had them too!
submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, FB Friday, The Clothes Make the Woman